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Installing a PHP extension in a Vagrant environment

I've been able to install the php_pdflib.dll successfully in my bin directory in a WAMP environment. So I know the correct PHP version as well as the VS version.

On the same machine, I've got a Vagrant environment and I need to install the same PDFlib. How? I've done a search for the bin directory or anything that resembles what I'm expecting to see and I'm not finding anything.

Thoughts?

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Dave Baldwin

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Bruce Gust

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That's just it, Dave, and forgive me for being a pig on roller skates, here, but where would I look for the php.ini file within Vagrant? I've done a Ransack search and I can't find squat.

Bruce Gust

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Here's what I came up with, but what corresponds to Vagrant?

Dave Baldwin

what corresponds to Vagrant?

I have no idea. I do know that you have a big mess on that computer.

Bruce Gust

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I'm getting closer, Dave! I've been doing some research and I'm now realizing that Vagrant is a VM that's designed to maintain consistency between developers so there's never a situation where you have one guy saying, "it works on my box."

But if that's the case, I don't understand why I'm running into a situation where I run into "Fatal error: Class 'PDFlib' not found in /vagrant/html/application/helpers/StatementImager/AbstractStatementPDFGenerator.php on line 74." Does it not make sense that if my VM is a clone of the server environment that the actual app runs on that I would have the necessary libraries and extensions installed by default?

I'm going to go ahead and close this question. Thanks for your feedback. I'm now trying to learn how I can set up and run a phpinfo(); page in Code Igniter. That's the framework I'm using on my local box that's tied into the Vagrant environment. I'm thinking if I can see where it's pulling all of it's configurations from I can figure this out a lot quicker. Thanks!

Dave Baldwin

Thanks for the points and good luck. I don't run any VMs at all.